The time is not over, the sunset on the Tianshan Mountain has not disappeared, Li Ye sat in the Buddha hall of the old monk of Kuzen in the Great Buddha Temple, and the old monk also stopped chanting and began to boil water and make tea.

Li Ye put the apricot blossom cake in his hand on the Buddha platform, and said with a smile: "It was given by Boss Hu of the Medicine Pavilion, and the master will taste it later, this year's apricot blossoms are fresh." ”

The old monk poured Li Ye a cup of tea, picked up a cup himself, tasted it gently, and said, "Today is Mr. Mo's wedding day, you don't help in Zizhu Courtyard, you come to drink tea with the old monk." ”

Li Ye kowtowed to the old monk and said, "Sir's wedding banquet is over, and I have to come over to practice sooner or later." ”

"There is a small courtyard next to the Zangjing Pavilion where you practiced boxing before, you go and clean it up tomorrow, and you will live there in the future. Every morning, when I get up, I go to fill the five large tanks of water in the hall, and do not draw water from the well in the temple, but from the stream in the back mountain. ”

Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "It doesn't matter where you live, as long as there is a bed." ”

The old monk looked at him and smiled with satisfaction.

"In the morning, after fasting, I go to chop firewood to be burned tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and when I get up in the afternoon, I sweep the leaves from the two courtyards outside the scripture pavilion. You can come and drink tea with me in the evening, or you can go back to your room to recite the scriptures. ”

Li Ye thought about it, this was much easier than practicing in the mountains. "Is there anything else?"

"This is the kind of practice you have to do at the moment, if you encounter an unknowing senior brother in the temple who makes it difficult for you, you must not beat them, you must learn to reason with them, of course you can ignore them. ”

The old monk said them one by one lightly.

Li Dian picked up the teacup in front of him, nodded and said, "The disciple will practice hard and try not to cause trouble to the senior brothers in the temple." ”

"That's fine, do you want me to ask the monk to prepare two sets of monk's robes for you?, how do you practice in robes?" the old monk frowned slightly.

Li Yeyi smiled when he heard this, and said, "The disciples have already prepared the clothes for cultivation, please ask the master to give me two pairs of mangshoe." ”

The old monk glared at him and said, "It's not a snowy day, what kind of shoes are empty? ”

Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "In this way, the disciple will practice barefoot from tomorrow." ”

The old monk nodded with satisfaction, pointed to the outside of the Buddha hall and said, "Remember to put a basin of water outside tomorrow, and wash your feet first when you come in." I'll sleep here tonight and move in tomorrow after packing up the house. ”

Li Ye clasped his hands together again and bowed his head in thanks.

......

The time was over, the wine in Zizhu Courtyard was exhausted, Ye Zhiqiu took Lin Yueru's hand and sent the guest outside.

Lin Yueru frowned and said, "After coming back from the restaurant today, why didn't you see Li Ye's child, is he afraid that his appearance will scare the guests?"

The general turned his head and glared at Lin Yueru.

Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and thought about it, looked back at the courtyard and said, "After he gave my sister to me outside the restaurant, I haven't seen him again." Did he go to bed early? He didn't drink. ”

Mu Mu, who was following Ye Zhiqiu, pulled Ye Zhiqiu's sleeve and whispered: "My brother went to the Big Buddha Temple after we separated, and he asked me to tell my mother later." ”

Lin Yueru was stunned, took Ye Zhiqiu's hand and asked, "Li Ye, this kid won't be hit, thinking about becoming a monk, right?"

Ye Zhilai was also stunned, glanced at Mu Mu, and glared at her.

patted Lin Yueru's hand and said: "He went to the Big Buddha Temple to practice, and he told me this when he came back from the mountain, but I didn't expect him to leave without telling me, Mu Mu, why didn't you tell your mother in the restaurant?"

Mu Mu tilted his head and said with a smile: "My brother didn't let me say it, he said that there are many people in the family, and there are many of them." ”

Ye Zhiqiu's heart tightened, and he pulled Mu Mu over and held her in his arms.

Lin Yueru glanced at the general, a little in a trance.

He muttered, "This kid actually gave up the comfortable life in the city and went to the Big Buddha Temple to practice with the old monk. ”

The general raised his head, glanced at the moon in the sky, and said, "Ambition." ”

Mu Mu continued to pout: "My brother said that the Big Buddha Temple is close to home, and it only takes half an hour to take the carriage. Let Mu Mu go to the temple to play with him when he thinks about him. ”

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said softly: "It's good to go down the mountain, the Big Buddha Temple is indeed very close, and you can go over by lifting your feet." ”

Lin Yueru looked at Ye Zhiqiu and sighed softly.

Ye Zhiqiu said to her: "It's not early, it's been a hard day, go home early to rest." ”

Lin Yueru and the general got into their own carriage and waved to Ye Zhiqiu: "I have time to bring Xiaoxue over for tea." ”

The whip sounded, and the wheels slammed.

Ye Zhiqiu pulled Mu Mu into the house, walked to the front of the hall, looked at the gentleman and Li Hongsleeve sitting at the table and said, "Ye'er went to the Big Buddha Temple this afternoon, Mu Mu just told me this little thing." ”

Li Hongsleeve exhaled a long breath, and suddenly realized: "No wonder I didn't see him all night, I thought he was hiding in the study to copy the scriptures." ”

Mr. poured Ye Zhiqiu a cup of tea, looked at the sky and said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you have nothing to do, don't go to the Big Buddha Temple to disturb him, it will affect his state of mind. ”

Mu Mu sat down next to Ye Zhiqiu, nodded and said, "Brother said, let Xiaoqing go to him for something." ”

Li Hongsleeve nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile: "This guy." ”

......

The bell of the Big Buddha Temple rang every day at half of the hour, and Li Ye got up with the old monk to wash.

The old monk went to the main hall to recite the scriptures.

Li Ye went to the dining hall to fetch water.

The sky is dark, autumn gusts of wind are rising, and raindrops are falling. The old monk looked at Qiu Yu outside the hall and frowned slightly, and said softly: "Be careful when you go to the back mountain to fetch water, and remember to take a hot bath when you are done." ”

Li Ye nodded, didn't speak, and walked to the dining hall by himself.

Walking to the dining hall, Li Ye said hello to the senior brother inside, saying that he would be responsible for the water in the future, and after speaking, he picked up the big bucket by the door and walked to the back mountain.

After walking for a while, I looked up at the sky, and then at my newly changed cardigan, and thought about taking it off and putting it into the space ring, only the iron armor I was wearing inside, step by step, not fast or slow, and went to the back mountain.

The raindrops in the sky are not big, neither fast nor slow, and have no intention of stopping.

It was not far from the water stream in the back mountain, and Li Ye quickly walked to the stream, picked up the wooden bucket to fetch water, and then carried it on his shoulders and walked back.

Between the walks, he calculated the distance back and forth and the weight of the bucket plus the water, less than a mile back and forth, the two buckets of water added up to about 100 catties, and when he poured the water into the tank, he estimated that it would take eight buckets of water to fill a tank.

If you walk quickly, you can carry back twelve buckets of water in one hour, and it will take more than three hours to fill the water tank without resting.

Looking at the muddy shoes, he simply took them off and put them under the eaves of the dining hall, and continued to walk back to the mountain with a bucket.

Now that he had calculated the time and weight he would need, he could not carry water step by step as he had done in the city, but he had to make three round trips in a quarter of an hour to fill the water tank in the hall in three and a half hours.

If his Yuanying realm was still in existence at this time, this round trip of more than a mile would be an instant for him, and now he could only use the power of the flesh of the unphased law body, and the speed was much slower.

More than 100 catties of water and the iron armor on his body are still a little difficult for him.

Braving the wind and rain for an hour, he almost filled two water tanks, and continued to carry the bucket to the back hill without resting, this time he also carried a wooden bucket in his hand, and he wanted to challenge his limit and carry back three buckets of water at a time.

When he returned to the front of the hall to pour water in the autumn rain, the senior brothers who had finished the morning class were already lining up outside the hall to eat.

Dozens of monks looked at the shirtless, iron-clad little junior brother, carrying three buckets to the back mountain, all pointing and laughing: "This new junior disciple has a sick brain, and the well behind the dining hall is obviously not going to be hit, but he wants to run to the back mountain to carry water." ”

Only the little novice standing in the front row knew that Li Ye was their uncle, but he was instructed by the old monk not to talk much.

When Li Ye left the hall, the little novice said to the monk who was playing the board in the hall: "I will leave a bowl of rice for the senior brother who carries the water, put it in the steamer and heat it, and tell him when he finishes carrying the water." "There is no sadness or joy between words.

The monk who played the board nodded and said, "Will it be like this in the future?"

Xiao Shami nodded, and continued: "After carrying the water, he still has to chop wood, and it is estimated that he will miss the time to eat, so don't worry about him in the future, leave a bowl on the steamer for him to eat by himself, and he will wash it clean after eating." ”

The monk continued to nod, he was also a little confused, this obviously has water, why do you have to go to the back mountain to carry water, it is time-consuming and laborious.

Only the little novice knew that this uncle was going to comprehend his own Dharma through the practice of the path of suffering.

But he couldn't do anything for him, so he could only ask the monk who played the board to leave him a bowl of rice.

Li Ye, who was running in the rain, didn't know that Xiao Shami asked the monk to leave him food, thinking that the temple had cooked too much, and he couldn't finish eating, so he would look for something to eat after he finished carrying the water.

What he had to pay attention to now was the road under his feet, it had been raining lightly for more than an hour, and the road was already muddy, and he would fall if he didn't pay attention.

Although he is already in the fivefold realm of the Phaseless Dharma Body, he still has to pay attention in the face of mud.

Three buckets of water are really much more laborious than two buckets of water, and the invulnerable body is already a little strained, and the high-intensity back and forth is constantly honing his physical endurance.

Fortunately, I had foreseen that I had shaved my hair, otherwise it would have stuck to my forehead with wetness, and I would really annoy myself.

For a time, the old and young monks who came to the hall to fast, all saw a bald monk in black armor in the rain, carrying two buckets of water and carrying a bucket of water in his hand, running in the rain, going back and forth between the hall and the stream in the back mountain.

The old monk glanced at Li Ye's back in the rain, and said nothing, this is the first day, see how many days and months you can survive.

Exhausted, it took Li Ye three hours and a quarter of an hour to finally fill the five large water tanks in the dining hall.

At this moment, he did not think about going to the dining hall to find food, but dragged a chair out of the house and put it under the eaves, and sat on it and gasped for breath.

The monk who played the board looked at him quietly and told him softly: "Senior brother, I have brought you a bowl of rice, put it in the pot, and you will eat it later." After saying that, he clasped his hands together and quietly left.

Li Ye clasped his hands together and said to the monk: Amitabha.

Looking at the monk who left quietly, he pushed open the door of the hall, opened the steamer on the pot, and saw a bowl of white porridge, two steamed buns, and a plate of pickles inside. Hehe smiled and said, "Just have something to eat." ”

He was willing to put himself under the pressure of the moment, and he knew that it would make some monks in the temple misunderstand and laugh at him.

Just thinking of the care that the monk has for him, he is very happy.